Now we need to look at more of
Paul's errors in doctrine, especially those that suggest one is not expected to
live by God's Law. We have already seen that Paul's doctrine concerning the
sovereignty of God is severely flawed, his use of Scripture to prove his
doctrine is lackluster at best if not outright dishonest, he lies, and he is in
all probability the false apostle that Yeshua commended the Ephesians for
rejecting.

Still, Paul makes both pro-law
statements and anti-law statements in his writings that he never does reconcile.
Indeed he can't! Either God expects us to live by His Law or He doesn't. There
is no in-between. But to be fair, I must make mention the fact of his pro-law
statements. One reason I need to do this is because among the growing sect of
Messianics there is a small number who call themselves "observant" Messianics.
They continue to believe, as Yeshua taught, that the law stands today. But in
their endeavor to try and maintain some semblance of credibility with other
Messianics, (who are really little more than Christians with a Jewish flair and
an umbilical cord attached directly to mainstream Christianity) these
observant Messianics will engage in bend-over-backwards apologetics for Paul
and do everything they can to argue he was pro-law. Apparently they continue to
feel the need to embrace the picture of an infallible New Testament. We
shouldn't be surprised about the fact that Paul made both pro and anti-law
statements because of things he said like the following.

"...to the Jew I became as a
Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law,
that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without law, as
without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ),
that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became as weak, that
I might win the weak, I have become all things to all men, that I might by all
means save some." 1Corinthians 9:20-22

At the very least, it is apparent
that Paul was a chameleon who blended with his surroundings whatever they
were! Paul clearly taught contradictory messages for the purpose of making
everybody happy... something you will never find Yeshua doing. As long as there
are numerous, clearly anti-law statements made by Paul, Christians and non-observant
Messianics alike will always point to them and rest their case against the poor
legalisticobservant Messianics. There is no simple misunderstanding
about it. Even Paul's contemporaries accused him of encouraging others not to
practice the law of Moses. They even had him there in the flesh to explain and
straighten out the misunderstanding if indeed it was so simple. This I have
already established. (See again Acts 21:20-12,28 for an example) As you will see
shortly while I display more of Paul's anti-law doctrine, the observant
Messianic's endeavors might be better termed... appaulling apaulogetics!
They would be better off facing the fact that Paul was a false apostle, call him
on it, and suffer the ostracism of Christianity. They aren't having much success
convincing anyone that Paul was pro-law anyway.

The book of Romans.

The book of Romans is considered by
many Christians to be Paul's masterpiece argument against justification through
the law in favor of justification through faith by grace. In trying to deal with
Paul's errors in logic one can quickly become bogged down in the very convoluted
string of arguments he makes. In dealing with his logic, it is not just a simple
matter of untying a series of knots in a long string. His logic is more like one
big twisted ball of knots made of knots made of knots! Many of those who believe
in Paul have an extremely difficult time following his rambling flow of logic
themselves. To deal with all of Paul's nonsensical logic in the book of Romans
alone would take an entire book by itself. I'm not going to take the space to do
that here. But what I will focus on are the fundamental premises on which he
bases his doctrines, and most importantly his ongoing blatant abuse of Scripture
to support them. In doing this alone, Paul will be totally disarmed. His
building will come crumbling down when these foundations that are built on sand
are removed. I will deal with only a portion of his nonsensical logic.

One of Christianity's favorite
Pauline passages that clearly suggests we ought not bother trying to keep God's
Law comes from the first part of the book of Romans. Right off in chapter 1,
Paul tries to establish some fundamental premises on which to continue building
his doctrine. He says;

For in it (the Gospel) the
righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The
just shall live by faith". Romans 1:17

This was a favorite passage of the
Christian reformer Martin Luther. He believed, as Paul clearly lays out later in
Romans and Galatians, this faith that the just are supposed to live by is
as opposed to living by the law. Paul eventually turns it into an either-or...
mutually exclusive incompatibility of faith and law. Notice once again that Paul
feels compelled to prove his doctrine by quoting Scripture. This observation
alone should make it go without saying that the Scripture he quotes had better
paint the same picture, or his premise is flawed... or groundless at best. Here
again Paul misquotes Scripture albeit slightly. The passage he quotes is:

"Behold the proud, his soul is not
upright in him, but the just shall live by his faith." Habakkuk 2:4

In its context, and more accurately
translated, it is obvious that what God is saying here is that the just
person (someone who is righteous) shall live (as opposed to dying)
"by" (literally "because of") "his" (personal, as opposed to
general) faithfulness: (literally, "steadfastness", ) to
righteous living. Let me shorten this up for better understanding. It is
this: The righteous person will survive if he is steadfast in his
righteousness. Nowhere in this picture is the idea: If an unrighteous
person wants to become righteous, he must live by exerting his faith.

This one relatively small mistake of
Paul's is only the beginning. From here, he builds on his doctrine by continuing
to make more grave errors that end up taking him way off course. It's like an
astronaut's rocket being off in trajectory by only a couple of degrees when he
begins his journey to the moon. He will eventually find he missed it by
thousands of miles. By the end of the book of Romans, Paul is so far off it's
hopeless! Watch where he goes from here in chapter 3.

Romans 3

Whenever someone suggests to a
Christian (most particularly evangelical Christian) that the law of God still
stands today, one of the first things out of their mouths to refute the
suggestion comes from Romans 3. We are quickly informed that no one is
able to keep the law, and all are guilty of breaking it and forever
remain labeled by it... unrighteous. Then we hear this quote:

"There is none righteous, no, not
one". Romans 3:10

This passage is again a quote Paul
takes from the Scriptures to prop up and prove his case. From verse 10 on
through 18 is Paul's apparent direct quote from Scripture that is supposed to
prove to us that no one is righteous, but all are full of evil.
Please read all eight verses for yourself. Now guess what? No such single
passage exists! What Paul quotes is a compilation of no less that six
separate passages that have been jerked out of their original context in the
Psalms and the book of Isaiah, and they are all strung together in such a
fashion that it appears they are one. We have seen this deceptive practice of
Paul's before. Remember in Romans 9, where he pastes together two short passages
from Genesis and Malachi concerning Jacob and Esau?! And Paul's accuracy in
quoting from the Psalms leaves much to be desired. The first passage he quotes
in verses 10-12 come from Psalm 14. Here is his version first.

As it is written: "There is none
righteous, no, not one; there is
none who understands; there is none who seeks after God. They have all gone
out of the way; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does
good, no, not one." Romans 3:10-12

Now here is the passage quoted
accurately... and in its context.

"The foolhas said
in his heart, "there is no God". They are corrupt, they
have done abominable works, there is none (of the atheistic fools)
who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the (corrupt)
children of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They
have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt;
there is non who does good, no, not
one. Have all theworkersof
iniquityno knowledge, who eat up my people as
they eat bread, and do not call on the Lord? There they ( the evil
people) are in great fear, for God is with the generation of the
RIGHTEOUS. Psalm 14:1-5 (Amplification in parentheses mine)

Guess what? In David's picture there
are no atheisticfools who do good! This passage is
obviously not speaking of every human being but of a very distinct group
of people whom David describes as fools, atheists, workers of
abominations, corrupt, ignorant, and workers of iniquity. Of course,
not one of them do good. And these evil people are pitted against a
second group of real people known as "my people" and "the
generation of the righteous". Even in this very Psalm that Paul
quotes from, there are obviously those whom God refers to as "righteous"!
This is hardly the picture Paul wants us to get from this Psalm. Notice also
Paul's embellishment of this passage. He would have us believe the phrase, "no,
not one" is used twice when it is only used once. The first time Paul uses the
phrase is where it doesn't exist, and it is coupled with the word "righteous"
which Hebrew word doesn't exist in this part of the Psalm or anywhere near the
words "no, not one". Instead the Hebrew word for righteous shows
up later in verse 5 and directly implies that there are those who are
righteous! So much for Paul's "no, not one".

In Paul's string of quotes in Romans
3:10-18, he continues in verse 13 to take Scripture snippets out of their
context from Psalm 5:9 and Psalm 140:3. In verse 14 he snips from Psalm 10:7.
Verse 15,16 and 17 he yanks from Isaiah 59:7,8. And verse 18 he jerks from Psalm
36:1. In each and every case, the people spoken of in these passages are
specifically evil men, and in the greater context of these passages, the evil
men are contrasted with people who are called "the righteous", "the upright",
and "the innocent". Please check for yourself. They are all obvious and easy to
see except for the Isaiah quote. In Isaiah, compare 59:7,8 which Paul quotes to
the previous chapter... Isaiah 58:6-12 and take special notice of the word
"righteousness" and how it is used in verse 8.

Paul wants us to believe that no one
becomes righteous through the works of the law. But there are many whom God
called righteous. From Genesis 7:1 where He says to Noah, "I have seen
that youare righteous before Me in this generation", all the way
through to the New Testament where Yeshua says, "many prophets and righteous
men desired to see what you see, and did not see it...", there are many
references to righteous men. Take an exhaustive concordance and look
under the word righteous.

After supposedly proving his premise
with his deceptive quoting of Scripture that no one can be righteous under the
law, Paul is forced to try and find for us a good working reason as to why God
gave man the law at all! Here is his logic.

"Now we know that whatever the
law says, it says to those who are under the law, that (for this
purpose) every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may
become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh
will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin."
Romans 3:19,20

This begins to defy words to
describe the blasphemous lie that it is. But hey, Paul has to come up with some
reason for the law's existence after demolishing the truth! Are we really to
believe that it's God's purpose to make man guilty before Him? If God
intentionally made His law impossible for man to keep, that would make God
the author of unrighteousness and guilt! Here's God's
version of why He gave man the law.

"Oh, that they had such a heart in
them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments,
that (for this purpose) it might be well with them and with
their children forever!" Deuteronomy 5:29

"And the Lord commanded us to
observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always,that (for this purpose) He might preserve us alive, as it
is this day. Then it will be righteousness for us, ifwe are careful to observe all these commandments before the Lord our God,
as He has commanded us." Deuteronomy 6:24,25

This blasphemous lie by itself
should finish Paul off and nail his hide to the wall as a false apostle. Here,
read it now again after having read these words from God's own mouth and compare
them closely.

"Now we know that whatever the
law says, it says to those who are under the law, that (for this
purpose) every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may
become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh
will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin."
Romans 3:19,20

Yeshua never taught anything
remotely close to this. But we are still long from being finished with all of
Paul's doctrinal errors. He goes on to mention some fringe benefits that go
along with his extremely faulty premise. The logic flows that if no man is
capable of doing God's law, and salvation is instead granted as a free gift of
grace, then nobody can brag about keeping the law anymore!

Where is boasting then? It is
excluded, By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. Therefore we
conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
Romans 3:27,28

Never mind the fact that it is an
important part of the law for man to know his place and humble himself! If
people kept all the law they wouldn't be boasting anyway.

"He has shown you, O man, what is
good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to
love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8

Notice also what it says about the
man who gave us the law.

Now the man Moses was very humble,
more than all men who were on the face of the earth. Numbers 12:3

God has never been in the business
of making it impossible for man to boast. He just makes it not worth the
while by humbling proud men if they refuse to humble themselves. The ironic
fact is that in the real world, Paul's doctrine is the source of far more pride
and arrogance than any other doctrine! One only need look at Paul himself, and
as mentioned before, notice how he lifted himself above the very apostles who
followed Yeshua (2Corinthians 11:5, Galatians 2:6,9), and how he even lifted
himself above Moses (2Corithians 3:11-13 and notice the phrase, "we use
great boldness of speech unlike Moses"), anyone who believes in the
concept off destiny, and that before creation God destined some vessels for
honor and some for dishonor (Romans 9:20-23), and naturally believes he is one
of those who is destined for honor, that person will be extremely conceited in
his heart.

But it's Paul's flow of logic from
the presupposition that God intentionally made the law impossible to keep that
becomes totally absurd. Since in his world, no one can keep the law, man must
therefore be justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. At this point
he uses Abraham as his cornerstone example.

Abraham justified by
faith?

Abraham's supposed justification by
faith is Paul's ace-in-the-hole argument for faith apart from the works of the
law both in the book of Romans and the book of Galatians. The following passages
come from Romans and Galatians and contain his supposed direct quote from the
book of Genesis.

What then shall we say that
Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was
justified by works, he has something of which to boast, but not before God.
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness." Romans 4:1-3

...just as Abraham "Believed
God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness". Galatians 3:6

So fundamental is Paul's use of
Abraham as a proof-text example for his righteousness "apart from works"
doctrine that James became fully aware of it and refuted it in his letter.

Was not Abraham our father
justified byworkswhen he offered Isaac his son on the
altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works
faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham
believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." James
2:21-23

James' logic here is far superior to
Paul's, but the disappointing thing about James' rebuttal is that he could have
done a better job and perfectly squashed Paul's pet argument! One reason it is
obvious that James is directly addressing Paul's doctrine is the fact that
James' quote from Genesis is identical to Paul's quotes which are in error...
again! It is apparent that James had obtained copies of Paul's letters and had
them in front of him when he wrote his letter, and it is obvious that he assumed
Paul had quoted Genesis accurately. After all, Paul's version would have sounded
very close to what he remembered of it. Consequently, James used Paul's
quote and went about refuting Paul's doctrine on other logical grounds. But in
doing this, he appears to have agreed with Paul that Abraham was
justified by faith. After all, that is what Paul's quote from Genesis indicates.
But James argues that Abraham's faith was a faith made of works as
opposed to Paul's faith without works. If James had gone down to the
local Synagogue and scrolled through the book of Genesis to see if Paul's quote
was perfectly accurate, he doubtless would have dealt with Paul's doctrine very
differently. The difference is subtle in appearance at first, but it is
devastatingly wrong. The accurate quote from Genesis is in the following
passage.

Then He brought him outside
and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to
number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be." And
he believed in the Lord, and he
accounted it to him for righteousness. Genesis 15:5,6

Notice the difference that it says,
"and he accounted it to him", as
opposed to Paul's, "and it was accounted to him". Paul and James' quotes
rearranged the phrase and left out the pronoun "he". You might be thinking,
"What's the difference? Aren't they still saying the same thing?" Answer; not at
all! The question at hand is, who is this pronoun "he" referring to?

Because Bible translators work from
the assumption that Paul knew what he was talking about, they assume the
particular pronoun here in Genesis is in reference to God. So they capitalized
it to indicate that it was God who accounted something to Abraham. But in the
Hebrew text there are no such capitalized letters, nor are there any indicators
in the word itself (which is actually only one letter) as to who the
pronoun refers to. The Hebrew language makes much use of pronouns this way and
at times can be confusing for English speaking people. We prefer to have the
person identified more regularly. You may have noticed in the short passage
above there are seven pronouns and Abraham isn't even named! We know this
passage is speaking of Abraham from two verses earlier! The Hebrew language
assumes more intelligence upon its readers to figure out who the pronouns refer
to from the context in which they are used. The first key to understanding who
this particular pronoun refers to comes from the obvious fact that the sentence
this phrase is found in begins by changing the identity of the one referred to
as "he" from God to Abraham. Read the entire passage again and notice how it
changes with, "And he believed in the Lord..." Obviously the Lord
didn't believe in the Lord! So at this point the narrative changes and
begins to refer to Abraham... and he believed in the Lord. Would it not
make sense that the remainder of the pronouns in the sentence also refer to
Abraham? The second key comes from the very next word translated "accounted".
The predominant meaning of this Hebrew word is to compute, reason,
or reckon. Seldom does it mean to credit to someone's account. The
far more likely interpretation of this phrase is that "he" (Abraham)
"reasoned" that "it" (the promise) was given to him for
(because of) his righteousness. Read it again and see if this doesn't fit
much better. In a moment I will prove that this interpretation is without
question the truth of the matter. So hang in there a minute while we first note
something else that happened in the same scene as this one where God promised to
multiply Abraham's descendants like the stars of heaven.

On the same day the Lord
made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given
this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates..."
Genesis 15:18

Now comes the proof I promised.
Let's look at something God said to Abraham's son Isaac a number of years later.
Notice that God makes reference to everything He had promised to Abraham on that
very same day in history. And more importantly, notice why God gave
Abraham the promises.

"Sojourn in this land, and I will
be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these
lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. And I
will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to
your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the
earth shall be blessed; BECAUSE
Abraham obeyedMyvoice and keptMy
charge, Mycommandments, Mystatutes, and
MyLaws." Genesis 26:3-5

Nowhere does God say anything to
Isaac about Abraham's faith! The promises God gave to Abraham were all because
of Abraham's works! God gave Abraham the promises because Abraham was a
righteous man... just as Abraham reasoned was the case back in
Genesis 15:6. Abraham was not justified by faith as Paul would have us
believe. He was justified by works! God couldn't have made that fact more plain
to Abraham's son Isaac.

Grace and mercy versus
law and works?

In the book of Romans, Paul goes on
to try and drive home this picture of grace versus works with more nonsensical,
and non-Scriptural logic. The book is sprinkled throughout with this picture
based on the assumption he has firmly established its truth on his previous
arguments, namely, that no one can become righteous under the law because God
made the law impossible to keep for the very purpose of keeping man humble and
reliant on His good graces. We have also seen his extremely faulty proof taken
from the story of Abraham. Another one of Paul's statements that ultimately
makes God responsible for man's sin is this gem.

"Moreover the law entered that(for this purpose) the offense (sin) might abound.
But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in
death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through
(faith alone in) Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 5:20 (amplifications
mine)

Again he draws the mutually
exclusive picture of Law and grace in the following.

"For sin shall not have dominion
over you, for you are not under law but under grace." Romans 6:14

Later on in Romans, Paul uses an
analogy from the time of Elijah to make his grace versus works point.

But what does the divine response
say to him (Elijah)? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who
have not bowed the knee to Baal." Even so then, (proof by analogy)
at this present time there is a remnant (of Israel)according to the
election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer of
works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no
longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. Romans 11:4-6

Paul's logic is so stood on its
head, and his proof demonstrated with smoke and mirrors here that it's almost
humorous. It would be hilarious if so many didn't believe this is the infallible
word of God. The only thing that Paul derives from what God said to Elijah is
that He had reserved a "remnant" for Himself. Nothing more! Never mind
the fact that these seven thousand men had themselves remained true to God's law
and not bowed their knee to Baal! Sounds like works to me! But then, to
keep the illusion going, Paul states that this new remnant of saved Israel is
"according to the election of grace". This he bases on the assumption that he
had firmly established the concept of predestination and the election
by grace earlier in the infamous passages of Romans 9. This detestable
doctrine is itself based on numerous misquotes of Scripture as I have exposed in
chapter 5. But now Paul continues to build lie on top of lie with the flow of
logic that if salvation is by grace, than it is no longer by works; otherwise
grace is no longer grace! What utter nonsense! Where is it written that grace
and law (works) are mutually exclusive concepts... other than in Paul's
writings? Paul had previously tried to establish the principle that the two
concepts cannot go together with this slight-of-hand.

"Now to him who works, the wages
are not counted as grace but as debt." Romans 4:4

This deception is accomplished by
renaming elements in the equation much the way an abortionist would never call
an unborn child a "baby". If Paul can get away with calling obedience
to God "work", than he can get away with calling the benefits of that
work "wages", and if we continue to follow him down this road we find out
that wages are really a "debt" for which payment may be demanded at any
time! Oh no! Who would want to be accused of being so presumptuous as to bill
God for grace?!! Phew. Let's back up and start over. What Paul calls "work" is
really obedience to God. God is the One with the bill! He made us and
demands the payment of obedience. His grace and mercy are
fringe benefits (not wages) of doing business with Him. No one, no matter
how obedient, can presumptuously demand payment of anything from God. To do so
would involve disobedience to the law concerning walking humbly
with God! Anyone who is obedient and walks humbly with God can have all
the "faith" in the world that God will provide the fringe benefits He promised.
Now doesn't this sound so much more simple and right?Even a child can
grasp this picture. But one must spent years in seminary before they can pretend
to comprehend Paul's convoluted mess.

Now let's take a look at Scripture
and take notice of who God deems worthy of His fringe benefits of grace, and
mercy. Let's start with Noah.

So the Lord said, "I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast,
creeping thing and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them."
But Noah found GRACE in the eyes of the
Lord. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man,
perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. Genesis 6:7-9

Then the Lord said to Noah, "Come
into the ark, you and all your household, BECAUSE
I have seen that you are righteousbeforeMe in
this generation. Genesis 7:1

Hmm! No one else on earth found
grace or mercy from God except one man and his family becausehe
was "just" and "righteous"! Contrary to Paul's doctrine, Noah
being a recipient of God's grace had everything to do with works.
Grace and works are not mutually exclusive. In God's view they are inextricably
tied to one another. There is more.

For the Lord God is a sun and
shield; the Lord will give grace
and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those whowalkuprightly. Psalm 84:11

For I, the Lord your God, am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third
and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love
Me and keep My commandments. Exodus 20: 5,6

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to
everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's
children, to such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His
commandments to do them. Psalm 103 17-18

And the list goes on and on. Paul's
concept of the separation of grace and works is as unscriptural as it can
possibly be. Just think about Paul's picture logically for a minute. The concept
of grace presupposes there exists law that man is guilty of breaking and he is
therefore desperately in need of grace! If there is no more law to break, who
needs grace? Absolutely nothing concerning grace and law has changed since
Yeshua... or Adam for that matter. Men who lived before Yeshua were no less
treated to God's wonderful grace, and man today is under no less
obligation to obey God's laws.

Paul, the author of
Christian anti-Semitism.

Ever since the gospel story of
Yeshua the Messiah left the hands of the Messianic Jews and went with Paul
toward the Gentiles under the new label of Christianity, and throughout history,
Christianity has had a terribly anti-Semitic dark side to it. Nearly all Jews
know the facts of history, but most Christians are completely unaware of the
despicable treatment the Jews have suffered in the name of their faith. The
Christian leaders who are aware of history have a tendency to sweep the
facts under the rug. So rampant was Christian anti-Semitism among both
Protestants and Catholics in Europe in the early 20th century that it could
easily be argued that the holocaust could not have occurred had it not been the
general 'who-cares about Jews' attitude of Christians. So few and far
between were the Christians who cared for the Jews that there is only one name
that comes to mind among Christians today. It is the Tenboom family. Naturally,
Christianity has made much of the Tenboom's sacrifices made on behalf of the
Jews, but they were able to save only a few Jews. The movie 'The Hiding Place',
which was produced to tell their story spends most of its time focusing on the
suffering of the family members in German concentration camps. It does little to
portray the even worse suffering of millions of Jews. So pathetic was
Christianity's response to the needs of the Jews at that time that God has to
raise up a man who had left the church... an alcoholic, womanizing,
industrialist by the name of Oscar Schindeler... to do many times the work of
all of Christian Europe put together.

Up until this time in history,
Christianity had itself been the main perpetrators of Jewish persecution. During
the times of the inquisitions, Jews were regularly tortured and killed if they
refused to convert to Christianity and prove it by eating pork. Jews were
constantly being called "Christ killers" and treated like the scum of the earth.
Even today, there are branches of Christianity that continue to consider and
treat Jews as "Christ killers"... as if they are the very ones who
crucified Yeshua. Many Christians still love to cite Matthew 27:25 were the
Jewish leaders said, "His blood be on us and on our children" as though all Jews
today are descendants of these relatively few prominent Jews and they are only
getting what their parents have asked for. This practice is nothing short of
despicable and I have a hard time finding words to express my personal contempt
for it. We can be sure that those relatively few leaders of the Jews who
pronounced the curse on themselves and their children, who were indeed evil,
died, along with their children 40 years later when Jerusalem was destroyed by
Rome in 70 A.D. But the sad truth of the matter is that Jewish history has
shown that it only takes one wicked king to bring about destruction on the
entire nation. But even then, God continues to hold on to those of Israel who
are innocent as a remnant through whom He will bring His promises to pass. The
point here is that since 70A.D. there has never existed a single solitary Jew
who can be held accountable for the crucifixion of Israel's Messiah. Those few
who were responsible have long since paid the price. The remnant of Jews
that live today should be as furious with the evil Jewish leaders of the first
century as they might be with those of earlier history when evil leaders of the
Jews lost the promised land of Israel for all Jews. But no Christian has any
right to hold accountable any Jew today for what happened in the first century.
Those who do are no less evil than the very people who had Yeshua crucified...
and they too will pay the price.

The question now is, where did
Christianity ever get the idea it had the right to condescend over the
Jews in this way and twist the words in Matthew 27:25 to include the descendants
of the entire nation of Israel? You guessed it. It's our resident false apostle
Paul! For starters, in 2 Corinthians 3, Paul paints the picture of the Law of
Moses being given for the very purpose of convicting of sin and causing death...
much the same as he teaches in Romans as mentioned above. He even blasphemously
refers to the Law of Moses as "the ministry of death" in 2Corinthians 3:7. God
calls the Law of Moses His Law, and He calls it life to all who
obey it! (See Deuteronomy 4:40, 5:29, 6:24-25 30:15-20) Paul then goes on to
say these words.

For if the ministry of
condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more
in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect,
because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away
was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. Therefore, since we have
such hope, we use great boldness of speech--unlike Moses, who put a
veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look
steadily at the end of what was passing away. But their minds
were hardened. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the
reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But
even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their
heart. 2Corinthians 3:9-15

Now take all of these types of
passages from Paul and consider them in light of these words.

Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if
you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. And I testify
again to everyman who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the
whole law. You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be
justified by law: you have fallen from grace. Galatians 5:2-4

For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. And as
many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them and upon
the Israel of God. Galatian 6:15-16

In view of these words from Paul, is
it any wonder that Christianity views itself as the new true Israel of Godand the former Israel has passed away? It is from this
condescending posture that it logically flows... the Jews today are irrelevant
in God's eyes and deserving only of contempt. Any true follower of Paul's
doctrine should be anti-Semitic. Paul and his doctrine are responsible
for the blatant and rampant anti-Semitism that has existed in Christianity
throughout history because Paul is the father of Christianity.
Yeshua never taught anything remotely resembling Paul's replacement doctrine.

The remainder of Paul's errors I
will set aside for now. They naturally come crashing down with the fact that
their foundations have been kicked out from under them. So now the question is,
if the law stands, what laws are we expected to observe.

Which laws stand?

If one were to ask the average
Christian if it were acceptable to murder someone because Christians aren't
under the law according to Paul, you would be told; "of course not". Then
it would be explained to you that God still expects Christians to live by the
moral code as embodied in the ten commandments. How this supposed fact fits with
Paul's either/or grace or law doctrine is never satisfactorily reconciled. But
nevertheless, they are quite adamant that we must still keep the ten
commandments. When you ask them about the forth of the ten commandments which is
to honor the Sabbath day, you are told that Paul dealt with that particular
commandment in his letter to the Colossians.

"Therefore let no on judge you in
food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths
which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ."
Colossians 2:16,17

So I guess there are really only
nine commandments that Christians need to observe! But then, if you listen to
Christian teachers and especially televangelists, it becomes obvious that in
their mind there are other parts of the law that continue to stand. And it
seems that they are most adamant about one in particular. The one law that you
will constantly hear reinstated is the commandment to give a tenth of one's
income to support the ministry of the Gospel! Isn't this an interesting
re-inclusion? I guess maybe this one commandment is to replace the one
concerning the Sabbath so we are back at ten again... kind of the way Paul is
supposed to replace Judas so there are again twelve apostles! Am I mocking
again? Yes! This re-inclusion of tithing law should be seen for the incredible
self-serving thing that it is. Preachers will quote from the law over and over
again to guilt their followers into giving to the church. Their favorite is the
following.

"Will a man rob God? Yet
you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In
tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me,
even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there
may be food in My house, and prove Me now in this," Says the Lord of hosts,
"If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such
blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it..." Malachi
3:8-10

When these words hit the ears of the
listeners, the wallets and checkbooks pop out everywhere. Who wants to be guilty
of robbing God and be cursed for it? And who doesn't want God to bless them so
much they can't contain it? When it comes to which of the laws of God are
applicable today, it should go without saying that the individual is responsible
before God to keep only the laws that God expects an individual to keep. God
gave numerous laws to the nation of Israel and to the priests that no individual
is capable of carrying out today. For example, I cannot prepare myself and go
walking into the Holy of Holies on the day of atonement and make atonement for
my home nation... for many reasons. It was the sole responsibility of the High
Priest to make atonement for Israel alone, and only then when there is a temple
and Holy of Holies in existence in Jerusalem the first place. Likewise, the law
of God concerning the tenth of one's income is very clear. It was given as a
command to the nation of Israel for the purpose of supporting the tribe of Levi,
the priests, who were given no other inheritance in the land of Israel. (See
Deuteronomy 14:22-29) God was their inheritance, (See Numbers 18:20-24) so in
commanding the other tribes of Israel to give a tenth to the Levites it was
considered a debt to God. That is why God saw withholding the tithe from the
Levites as robbing Him and took it personally as recorded in Malachi. Guess what
people? We don't have a Levitical priesthood today! To claim that the leaders of
the modern Christian church are today's priesthood is nothing more than
convenient nonsense in light of Paul's false apostleship and the fact that God
does not officially recognize any religious institution on earth today.
Religious institutions today are bad enough about applying the screws of guilt
to their followers to get money out of them, but televangelists as a whole are
the worst. They have made a complete mockery of the small amount of truth that
they do have. That truth being Yeshua (Jesus) is the Messiah and coming Judge. I
for one would not want to be anywhere near their shoes when the Judge is
seated.

But there certainly is a place for
giving. If a person still desires to give, and wants to have true reward in
heaven, they should do as Yeshua taught and give it directly to help the poor.
Matthew 19:21 Luke 19:8,9 Forget the institutions of Christianity. It's money
to the wind that will not come back in this life or the next!

The main point of this section that
needs to be born out is that there is no consistency to Christianity's rejection
of the law. It has obviously become no more than a pick and chose whichever law
suits the best interests of institution at the time.

Every "jot and
tittle"

Yeshua fully endorsed the Law and
the Prophets. To reiterate His say-so;

"Do not think that I came to
destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill
(give official sanction). For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth
pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Law till all
(heaven and earth) is fulfilled (come to pass). Whoever therefore breaks one
of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least
in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be
called great in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:17-19

Yeshua's reference to "jot" and "tittle"
of the law is of utmost significance here. At that time in history, there were
two distinct groups of laws. There was the written law, and there was the oral
law. It was taught that the oral law was also given by Moses to detail how to
carry out the written law, and it was handed down through the ages by word of
mouth to special people like the Pharisees. This nonsense is disprovable in
light of Israel's history as recorded in 2Kings 22, and 2Cronicles 34. There it
is recorded that Israel found the written book of Moses that had been lost for
some time. When it was read, it was obviously something those who heard it
hadn't heard before. The question is, if Israel had lost and forgotten the
written law, how can we be expected to believe there was an ongoing oral law
that gave detain on how to carry out the written law?

Yeshua also made these comments
concerning the oral law.

He answered and said to them,
"Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people
honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me, and in vain they
worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' For
laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men--the
washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do." And He said
to them, "All too well you reject the commandant of God, that you may keep
your tradition." Mark 7:6-9

The idea that God gave Moses these
oral laws and that they have been passed down is simply not true. Yeshua called
them the mere commandments of men. But on another interesting side note, the
modern Catholic Christian church has borrowed from this successful method of
duping and controlling the masses. It is taught that the secret doctrines of
Christianity were given by Yeshua to his apostles who were the first bishops.
And since the first century, "there has been an unbroken line of Catholic
bishops faithfully handing on what the apostles taught the first Christians in
Scripture and oral tradition." These doctrines, like the perpetual virginity
of Mary, the communion between living and dead saints, the Eucharist, and so on,
are taught by the Church in a, 'trust the church, and submit to it because it is
God's authority on earth, and you simply cannot comprehend..." fashion. I wonder
where the Catholic church got the idea to try this? There is not a shred of
truth to these doctrines. And like the notion that the oral law was passed down
from Moses, there is not a shred of truth to the notion that Yeshua's secret
teachings have been passed down orally by the bishops from the time of the
apostles. The only solid piece of truth that anyone has to work with is found
in the written words of Moses, the prophets, and Yeshua. And we all, now have
access to them and can read them for ourselves. It was the practice of
Christianity throughout the majority of its history, especially during the dark
ages, to keep the average person illiterate and the Bible out of the hands of
the masses. Is it any wonder why it was called the dark ages? Even when more
people became literate, the Bible was intentionally kept out of the hands of
everyday people. William Tyndale was murdered by the church for translating the
Bible into the English language for the average person to read. His pocket-sized
Bible translations were smuggled into England, and then ruthlessly sought out by
the Church, confiscated and destroyed. Tyndale was condemned as a heretic, and
was strangled and burned outside Brussels. This happened in history as recently
as 1536. Today, the Catholic church keeps its more literate masses at bay by
claiming the most important doctrines were never written down at all, but are
mysteries passed down orally and known only to the bishops! Can't seem to win...
can we?

Having said this, I must emphasis
that I speak against the institutions and hierarchy of not just
the Catholic Christian church, but all religious institutions... Christian and
otherwise. There is hardly one better than another... and non are
recognized in heaven. But as mentioned before, I believe there are many of the
every-day type people in these institutions whose hearts are good, who have done
well with what they were given, and will still receive some significant degree
of salvation. So, in certain cases where it is clear that a good individual
cannot make a change, it may be better not to confront them and the errors of
their particular institution and spare them the guilt of rejecting the truth.
This act of consideration is not altogether without precedence. Yeshua said,"I have many things to say to you, but you cannot
bear them now". John 16:12 I would advise people to be careful about getting
into just anyone's face with the truth. Be sure your motives are pure, or you
may end up doing more harm than good. But I digress. More will be said on this
in the final chapter.

Many of the Pharisees of Yeshua's
time also intimidated and controlled every-day people with an air of superiority
based on their knowledge of oral law. But later in history, the oral traditions
they taught became written down and today are know as the Talmud. Most of modern
Judaism is really Talmudism much the way Christianity today is
Paulinism. So back when Yeshua said, not one "jot or tittle" of the law
would pass away, he was intentionally disenfranchising the oral traditions of
the Pharisees and speaking only of Moses and the prophets that were in writing
at that time. The words "jot" and "tittle" are specific terms referring to
something written.

What Part of the
written?

As mentioned previously, only the
laws that are applicable to the individual are the ones the individual is
responsible to keep. The first and greatest law being to love the Lord your God
with all your heart. If one truly loves God they will want to do all His
will. This must then include the second greatest commandment, love your neighbor
as yourself. Every law of God could be listed under these two categories. If you
come from a Christian background, and out of love for God want to start walking
in His ways, you can start immediately by beginning to observe His day... the
Sabbath. This is seen by God as one of the greatest expressions of love for Him
because it honors what He has blessed, and it is the ultimate expression of
recognizing Him as the six-day creator of heaven and earth. All Christian
creationists should automatically recognize the importance of honoring God's
Sabbath.

I could go on and write many more
pages of what God would want someone who loves Him to observe. But for now, I
would like to refer the person who wants to continue to grow in observance of
God's law to another group of individuals. There is a Jewish sect living in
Israel whose heart is in the right place, and has in my opinion been far closer
to observing the unadulterated law of God than any other. They are known as the
Karaite Jews. I don't think they could even be considered a formal religious
institution of any kind. But if they could, I do not believe God would recognize
their institution either. But He does recognize their heart condition and it
certainly appears to me to be unadulterated toward Him. They are not officially
recognized by any mainstream sect of Judaism because they reject the supposed
authority of the Talmud... much the way I reject the supposed authority of
Paul's writings. The only big difference I have with them would obviously be
with the fact that they do not at this time believe Yeshua is the Messiah. But I
thoroughly believe they are no less saved or loved by the God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob... a point I have made earlier. These dear people are not guilty of
rejecting the truth concerning Yeshua simply because they have not been exposed
to any reasonable facsimile of it. God won't fault them for rejecting a lie.
They will eventually come in contact with the real Yeshua and I am confident
they will embrace him at that time. But I would recommend becoming familiar with
their other teachings concerning law observance. They can be found on the
internet at www.karaite-korner.org/
.